Black Atlanta,
on the air.
The cover story / WERD, 1949
Jesse B. Blayton changed who owned the microphone. Atlanta changed what the country heard.
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Issue 03 / September 2026WERD, Sweet Auburn, Atlanta University, washerwomen, and the city memory behind the current Weekly issue.
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The eleven dollars that changed Atlanta
Issue 02 / 2026Alonzo Herndon began life enslaved. He built barbershops, real estate holdings and an insurance company—and used each success to widen the space available to Black Atlanta.
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Issue 01 / 2026A short stretch of Auburn Avenue became an economic, cultural, religious and political center whose influence reached far beyond Atlanta.
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Black Atlanta,
Atlanta put Black progress on the map.
Data as design / Paris, 1900
Du Bois and Atlanta University students made evidence into a visual language the world could see.
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Labor & community / Atlanta, 1881
Atlanta's washerwomen organized for fair pay and made the city reckon with the value of their work.
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